On Wednesday, 17-year-old high school athlete Austin Metcalf was fatally stabbed at a track event at Kuykendall Stadium, in the northern Frisco suburb of Dallas, Texas, according to local authorities.

A Texas father is speaking out about the stabbing death of his 17-year-old son during a high school track meet after an apparent seating dispute.

Austin Metcalf was a 17-year-old high school student in Frisco, Texas, who was stabbed to death by another student at a track meet, according to Frisco police. Frisco police wrote in a news release that the suspect accused in the homicide is a Frisco Centennial High School student named Karmelo